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We had a fantastically successful festival season with many sell-out shows for both Fringe and Dublin Theatre Festivals. This was topped off by All Honey, written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth (our 2018 Writer in Residence) winning the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe Festival. All Honey was featured in The New Theatre: Dublin’s New […]

The New Theatre is now accepting submissions for our upcoming New Writing Week November 2017. New writing has always been at the heart of The New Theatre. If you have an original play that has not been staged we want to hear from you. We’re looking for new voices, original ideas and engaging themes that […]

This spring our production of ‘Ledwidge’ by Gerard Humphreys, went on a national tour to celebrate the centenary of Great War poet. The tour took us to The Lyric Theatre – Belfast, Theatre Royal – Waterford, St. John’s Theatre – Listowel, Friarsgate Theatre – Kilmallock, Watergate Theatre – Kilkenny, Riverbank Arts Centre – Newbridge, Solstice […]

Congratulations to Designer Orla Reynolds for her amazing work, and inclusion in the Irish Times series The Story of Home. Orla has designed many of our in house, national & international touring productions, to high acclaim including James Joyce’s A Portrait Of The Artist As a Young Man directed by Jimmy Fay, Gerard Humphreys’ Lockdown, […]

Introducing our Artist in Residence – Writer and Performer, Ciara Smyth. Ciara will be with us for a whole year during which time The New Theatre will present two of her plays. We cannot wait to see the first of these in July 2017, and we can look forward to the second show in Spring […]

The New Theatre seeks a Finance Administrator to take responsibility for the entire financial operation of the theatre. The Finance Administrator reports to the Artistic Director and liaises with other staff, and will be responsible for: Bookkeeping, using TAS Books Payments Debtors Petty Cash Financial settlements with incoming companies Cash flow Budgets, in collaboration with […]

As we near the end of 2016, it’s time to take a look back at what’s been our busiest and most exciting year to date, with 9 new playreadings, 18 new productions, 3 new festivals – the INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL, the SILK ROAD FESTIVAL and the CULT HORROR FESTIVAL– plus the welcome return of PALFEST […]

We are delighted to announce Chris O’Rourke as our new Consulting Literary Director. He will be instrumental in selecting and developing scripts as part of our New Writing platform. Chris is a playwright, director, drama coach and critic and holds an MA (hons) in Modern Drama. Chris was National Theatre Critic for Examiner.com until July […]

We are very excited to welcome back the TIGER Dublin Fringe Festival to The New Theatre, along with their dynamic line up of theatre, comedy and music. We have shows at 1pm, 6.30pm & 8.30pm. Check the more info tab on our homepage for all the info!

Our co-production with Unknown Theatre, If Walls Could Talk, after a second successful run on The New Theatre stage is now mid run at The Edinburgh Fringe. We wish them every success and a wonderful time at the festival. They play 11.05am at The Space at Niddry St (venue 9) Find more information here.

Currently previewing is Pink Milk, the latest offering from talented Writer-Director duo Lauren-Shannon Jones and Nora Kelly Lester. It delivers all the surreal, unsettling quirkiness that has become the hallmark of their work together. Pink Milk also marks their final project of their residency here at The New Theatre. We can’t wait for opening night […]

The Trial of Madame de Markievicz is currently in the middle of a nationwide tour. **** ‘… an imaginative cracker of a play, skilfully structured and acted with the kind of passion the subject needs,’ ‘This performance will undoubtedly prove popular among theatre enthusiasts and historians alike.’ This play by Dr Ann Matthews, together with […]